The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 15th October 2013

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 15th October 2013. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Story that has no beginning, that has no end — Jesus, that is a writer!
AAcross 9:	It would be stupid if mother leaves, in a manner of speaking
AAcross 10:	Better picnic
AAcross 11:	Some womanising Arab …
AAcross 12:	… still giving pussy a drink
AAcross 13:	Willing, after a fashion, when not playing host
AAcross 14:	Serious, lonesome and heartless man
AAcross 17:	Among undesirable persons
AAcross 19:	Those leading clubs ruffed Omar Sharif's spade in new game of bridge
AAcross 22:	Keeping away from extremely tempting liaison diabolique
AAcross 24:	Nag mouse-like creature
AAcross 25:	Store in the middle of the winding road
AAcross 26:	Light setback in vote: rift escalating	SETFIRETO
AAcross 27:	Anne McGregor is, perhaps, being alarmist
DDown 1:	Compiler to slip into a clever and attractive person	ABITOFALLRIGHT
DDown 2:	Valid core degrees for woodcutter
DDown 3:	Disturbed mind in bigger one that's really big
DDown 4:	Tunnel across in uneven combat
DDown 5:	Read out list of ingredients quietly — lost for time
DDown 6:	Games of shaven swine?
DDown 7:	Vivid in future, possibly
DDown 8:	It's a safe bet car now got damaged, if held by juvenile	YOUCANTGOWRONG
DDown 15:	Fanatical Philistine has first leaders swapping leaders
DDown 16:	Cow not left in lowland
DDown 18:	Picaroon's not on? That could be dull
DDown 20:	Is priest following god, one from the Middle East?
DDown 21:	Oriental offering obscure problem
DDown 23:	As a source of dread leading to ophiophobia